W0rkshops Seminars Groups
Clinical Consultation Group: The World & The Psyche
Psychoanalytic Inquiry
Facilitated by:
Carlos Padrón, MA, MPhil
Licensed Psychoanalyst
Group description:
In becoming allied with the more scientific psychiatric establishment, classical psychoanalysis in the United States distanced itself from the problems of society; and, more specifically, from those of the poor and working class, many of whom were people of color. This detachment from the socio-political world was paralleled by the proverbial silent analyst, a supposed blank screen that reflects to the patient their interpsychic life, with no reference to society or culture... More
“Attentiveness is the difficult task of waiting, not for the world to take note of us, but for us to take note of the world.”
-Simone Weil
